Bedian villages were bemused on Friday, 10th April, 2015 as they gathered at Dera Alam al-Khayal, Ghawind Lahore with their donkeys to compete in a first-of-its-kind beauty contest for Donkeys. Responding to enthusiastic announcements made in local mosques asking donkey owners to take their donkeys to the Dera, villagers were curious […]
The defence zone of China overlaps with Japan. Both the countries claim control over a few small scattered islands called Senkakus(Japnese language) or Diayou(Chinese language). As China, recently, announced its new boundaries of the air known as ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone), USA who has a security accord with Japan, […]
The phenomenon of continuous swing in the global political dynamics besides a shift in power among the major players of the world, the face of interstate relations keeps changing respectively. Given the fact, it is important that our understanding of the world should also evolve accordingly, and we are not […]
On Saturday, April 25, 2015, a devastating earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, followed by several aftershocks jolted Nepal ruthlessly. Strong tremors were felt in India, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Until this article is being written, about 4600 fatalities have been confirmed in Nepal and death toll is expected to increase much […]
Indeed, India and Pakistan are intertwined in an absolute longstanding security competition. Although, nuclear parity does not exist in the region neither both states are conventionally parallel but action-reaction or tit-for-tat cycle is rapidly enhancing the nuclear capabilities in Southern region, specifically of India and partially of Pakistan. India shares […]
In the post-Cold war era, one of the major foreign policy objectives of the great powers has become prevention of further nuclear proliferation and for the reason many nonproliferation frameworks are developed. During the Cold War era, the formation of Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 with the aim to […]
“The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people [is] convinced of the superiority of their culture and [is] obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” These are words of Samuel P. Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking […]
Notwithstanding various instruments, one of the predominant challenges in the contemporary security environment to world peace and security is the spread of nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), since its ratification is broadly accepted as world’s most triumphant international arms control accord, which has been adhered by all states […]
After the 9/11 terrorists attacks on the US, many spectators voiced their fear about the existence of high probability of a nuclear threat, that the terrorist could acquire and use nuclear weapons to achieve their political-cum-religious motives. The nuclear security summit (NSS) which was born out of President Obama’s Prague […]
What if Pakistan were the world’s sole superpower? Would it be any different from the United States today? Would it treat the less powerful in the same way as Pakistanis currently expect to be treated by the US? Would Pakistan stand up for freedom and justice? However, improbable such a […]
